On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi Wikimedians in India,
Recently i've been making improvements to the enhanced editing
toolbar, and especially to its "Special Characters" functionality.
Great!
Tamil isn't there in the extension, but I have some feedback / questions.
Does this aim to replace on-screen-keyboard? IMHO its highly unfriendly to type a name/anything for that matter using it. Its best suited for the purpose it intended for, i.e "Special Characters" and should not contain entire char set(at least when Narayam is available, that should predominantly be the input method). It would be suitable to have actual special characters which either don't have key mappings on Narayam / other standard input methods or those which people don't use frequently and hence might not remember. Example, I would like Tamil numerals[1] which lack a way in most input methods to be on this toolbar rather than the entire Tamil char set.
I see Telugu, Bengali already have their char set, and Marathi filed a bug[2], but the list of languages / order isn't configurable per project, which means if Marathi gets added tomorrow, they have to scroll down the list and is unlikely to be very usable at least in Marathi projects since few people may scroll down and use it to input.
Other than being a first class citizen and being up within the editor, what difference does this have against Mediawiki:Edittools ?